Artist’s rendering of future Kolektif Arcadins development
What Is Kolektif Arcadins?
Kolektif Arcadins is a regional development initiative to create transformational change in the Arcadins coast region of Haiti. A partnership of eight international and local organizations is accompanying local government and civil society institutions to build viable communities where children and families can thrive.
our objectives
Kolektif Arcadins aims to:
Promote broad-based economic development through investment in agriculture, pisciculture, entrepreneurship and vocational training
Improve access to quality health care, especially maternal and women’s health,
Improve equitable access to quality education, and
Build cohesion among actors to support good governance and leadership.
Our Approach
Kolektif partners will support these goals by accompanying, strengthening or incubating local institutions to drive and sustain the work.
Our approach prioritizes leadership and institution building, civic engagement and community mobilization. This path is slower but is the best way to achieve sustainability of what Kolektif supports.
These priorities are the output of an extensive community visioning process that engaged local officials, civil society organizations, private sector organization leaders, and ordinary citizens in the region to identify their priority needs and imagine the communities they want to develop.
Our Vision For Impact
OUR PARTNERSHIP
Current Activities
HDI and our partners have laid the groundwork for a truly community-wide development effort.
HDI has acquired 40 acres just outside the city center of Arcahaie and will develop it as a civic hub and site for facilities to support regional development initiatives.
Kolektif partners are working in the community:
Delivering health care
Mobilizing citizens
Supporting youth leadership development
Supporting sports leagues and community activities
Grantmaking for community improvement projects
Strengthening community institutions through training
Providing arts and music education
Developing vocational skills
Operating a new community center offering enrichment education, internet access and after school activities.
Next Phase - Develop Kolektif’s Anchor Project
economic development through agriculture sector strengthening
A top priority of Arcadins residents is livelihoods development. In a predominantly rural region, most people are engaged in agriculture. Agriculture has tremendous potential in the region, which produces mango, plantain, pigeon peas and more.
But farmers need better access to equipment, soil testing and inputs like irrigation, quality seeds and fertilizer. Farmers also need value chain services like transport, storage and value-addition processing and access to larger markets.
agrifood entrepreneurship center
The Agrifood Entrepreneurship Center (AEC) will address these critical gaps by supporting an ecosystem of value chain enterprises. The AEC will buy local crops/animals and also make available its storage and processing infrastructure to entrepreneurs engaged in marketing of crops and meat as well as production and marketing of value-added products. These enterprises will be mutually reinforcing and the AEC will leverage business development, marketing and sales support as well as extension services for local farmers.
The AEC is designed to be revenue generating and self-sustaining once established.
Artist’s Rendering of Agrifood Entrepreneurship Center.
a modular approach
We are developing the AEC through a modular approach which allows us to launch component enterprises and programs as funding is secured.
The initial components of the AEC to be developed are:
· Haiti’s first commercial farm selling certified seeds;
· A food processing facility;
· A goat meat production hub; and
· An agricultural apprenticeship training program for young people who want to specialize in agricultural mechanics or veterinary services.
lead partners
HDI’s Role
HDI is at the center of this effort, acting as “backbone” organization for the initiative. HDI is well-positioned to serve this role.
HDI works to build strong communities where children and families can prosper. Kolektif leverages all three of HDI’s pillars – organizational leadership and institution building, grantmaking and civic leadership.
HDI has been headquartered in Arcahaie since 2018. We have built relations with local officials, partnered with town hall and other government offices, supported local organizations and consistently engaged and mobilized citizens.
As backbone organization, HDI
Acts as secretariat for the partnership
Leads program development and coordinates fundraising efforts
Leads monitoring, evaluation and results management
Stewards the land and supervises construction and development of the site
join us!
We seek investors! If you are interested in learning more, please see the Kolektif Arcadins website and contact Laurie Bennett, Kolektif Arcadins Program Director, at lbennett@hdihaiti.org.